Using SharePoint Designer in the Real World - Connections Amsterdam 2011

"My IT department says we are not allowed to use SharePoint Designer." This phrase is fairly common when the topic of SharePoint Designer comes up in a training, conference setting or a consulting engagement. IT departments have concerns around deploying SharePoint Designer to end users. This session provides real world use cases and guidance that covers when it is safe to let your site administrators use SharePoint Designer 2010 (and also when it's not safe). In addition, we will discuss the different level of privileges that should be granted to different groups of people in your organization.

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What to Expect during this presentation? <ul><li>250 level presentation </li></ul><ul><li>Demos and Best Practice guidance on each of the areas </li></ul><ul><li>Giveaways of video tutorial DVD and 16GB USB Flash drive at the end </li></ul>

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Assumption of the audience today <ul><li>Folks who want to learn more about SharePoint Designer (SPD) </li></ul><ul><li>Developers and IT Professionals who are wondering if they should be using SPD themselves </li></ul><ul><li>IT Administrators who have allowed some form of SPD usage in their organization and are wondering what kind of problems can possibly occur </li></ul><ul><li>IT Administrators who are not fans of SPD and would rather eat mud than let their users use SPD in their pristine environment </li></ul>

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The drawbacks of not using SharePoint Designer <ul><li>Simple maintenance of objects (page content modification, lists, libraries, metadata, security etc) take much longer than they should </li></ul><ul><li>Non-developers are limited to browser based modifications OR getting a third party product </li></ul><ul><li>Solutions have to be built the hard way (code-based). For example: Workflows, External Content Types, Data View Web Parts </li></ul><ul><li>Bottom line: The total Return on Investment (ROI) for SharePoint is not being realized! </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Who should be able to use SharePoint Designer? </li></ul>X

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Should you give it to the End Users? <ul><li>Readers </li></ul><ul><li>Members </li></ul>Readers and Members have no need for SPD

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